You often read or hear that you should always proceed with caution when working with the Windows registry. Although this is very true, you can help alleviate some of the jitters of modifying the registry if you understand a little more about it.
First of all, a little about the registry terminology, keys, and values are terms you should be able to differentiate between. In the most simplistic terms, values contain the specific data and values are organized into registry keys.
Creating a new registry key is a straightforward process. With the Registry Editor open (click Start, type Registry Editor in the Search field and press Enter) navigate to the location where you want to create the new key. Click the Edit menu, point to New and click Key. Conversely, you can delete an existing key by selecting the appropriate key and clicking Delete from the Edit menu.
Creating a new value is also fairly simple. Again, navigate to the appropriate key. Click Edit, point to New and select one of the different value types. Type in the name for the value and edit the data by double clicking the value. The type of data you include in the value will depend on the type of value you are creating. For example, a DWORD value will consist of a number.
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Written by Jason on June 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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I don’t know about you but I think the default font of the command prompt is ugly and hard to read. This guide shows you how to change the default font from a Raster font to a Consolas font specially designed for developers.
If your computer doesn’t have the Consolas font this guide shows you where to get it and how to configure the command prompt to recognize it.
Change the Command Prompt’s Font
1. Click the Start orb, All Programs, Accessories, and then open the Command Prompt.
2. Right-click the top bar of the command prompt and then select Defaults.
3. Select the Font tab.
4. Change the font to Lucinda Consolas and set the size to 14. If you don’t see the Lucinda Consolas font follow the directions below to install it.
5. Click OK to save the changes.
Install the Consolas Font
1. Download and install the Consolas font from Microsoft.
2. Open an elevated command prompt (Start, All Programs, Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator) and then type the following: reg add
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont” /v 00 /d Consolas
3. Press Enter on your keyboard to add the registry key.
4. Restart your computer and follow the instructions under Change the Command Prompt’s Font above.
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We have been receiving mails from several readers that they are not able to login to Windows. As soon as they login, the windows show applying your settings, saving your settings and logs off automatically without logging in. This situation is really very troublesome and gets onto the nerves of a person who needs his computer badly for some important work.
The main reasons behind this problem is a corruption in the registry key which holds the value of the files which are executed while login to windows. This registry key can get either replaced with some incorrect value or it might get corrupt due to some virus / trojan activity. Lets see how to fix this issue.
We need to remotely access the infected computer from another computer on same network. Then we need to correct the registry key for userinit under winlogon. (more…)
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The problem of slow or delayed shutdown is very commonly faced by most of the windows XP users. If you are using windows XP for a long time, you are more likely to have such problem.
Why Slow shutdown?
In Windows XP certain registry keys are responsible for determining how long windows will wait before shutting down all the opened programs and services after the shutdown command has been given by the user.
Lets see how we can fix the slow shutdown in windows XP.
You need to optimise some registry keys values in order to speed up the shutdown process. (more…)
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AutoPlay or AutoRun dialog window will pop up when an removable drive, portable device such as digital camera and media player or CD/DVD disc been inserted into computer or placed into optical drive, with plenty of action choices in a list of options for users to choose to perform on the just connected drive and drive contents. Each item in the AutoPlay list is a handler installed by various applications to show as an option for a particular events or content types such as Pictures, Videos, and Mixed.
Windows by default has several AutoPlay handlers, and other third-party programs, especially media player such as MusicMatch Jukebox and RealPlayer, and image burning software such as Nero will add their own AutoPlay handlers and shortcuts into the list. Over the time, the AutoPlay list can get longer and longer, and some entries can become invalid or orphaned when the program has been uninstalled by the AutoPlay handlers are not removed. (more…)
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This guide shows you how to increase Internet Explorer 7’s connection limit from 2 to 16 which increases the speed of many web pages.
What Are Connections?
When you connect to a website your computer establishes connections with the web server(s). One connection might be a graphics server, another connection may be an ad server and so on. Once the connection has received what it asked for it is disconnected and used for something else.
By default IE7 is set to only be able to open 2 or 4 connections at a time. If you have broadband and you use tabs in IE7 or you visit sites that use lots of connections this tweak will increase the speed of IE7 a little. (more…)
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Sometimes making your PC ‘run’ faster is just about changing the way programs run e.g disabling splash screens. This tip will make your machine feel faster, by increasing the speed with which menus load, by removing the delay between clicking on a menu and that menu being displayed, which is enforced by XP.
To enable this tweak do the following:
1. Go to the Start Menu and then click on ‘Run’
2. Type in ‘Regedit’ then click on ‘Ok’ (more…)
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After windows restart or even after windows explorer quick launch items got arranged in a alphabetically and also resizes to the default.
According to the default settings of windows it does not save the settings when you customize the quick launch items ,it does not save the quick launch items location and its size also.
This issue of quick launch items location changed and resize applies to both windows XP and windows Vista.
But this can be easily resolved by a registry fix.
Follow the procedure given below. (more…)
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